BEYOND GALLERY 218 - SEARCHING FOR NEW HORIZON

THE ART FACTORY - VIDEO

PRESS RELEASE - JESUS DE LA ROSA

• • Tuesday, February 21, 2012
  • 6:30pm until 9:30pm

• Rusteberg Art Gallery

• The Gallery in the Rusteberg Building at The University of Texas at Brownsville Proudly Presents "Systematic Drawings" by Jesus de la Rosa ... Opening reception night will be Tuesday February, 21, 6:30 P.M. where light refreshments will be served. De la Rosa's show will run from Tuesday February 21 to Friday March 23, 2012. The Gallery is located in the Rusteberg Building right in front of the Marion Hedrick Smith Memorial amphitheater on Gorgas Drive. During the opening, Jesus de la Rosa, will explain the process of making these drawings, then invite the audience to participate and contribute to the installation using the same process. So the exhibition becomes a collaboration and community exhibition. An edition of silkscreen prints will be available for purchase during the opening. The prints are hand pulled and signed by the artist. All revenue from the sale of the silkscreen prints will be designated to Relay for Life. Artist Statement: Systematic Drawings The production of these drawings is rooted in printmaking, specifically monotypes, as well as a reliance on the accident as used in abstract painting process. One goal when I started this series of drawings was to find a method to make a unique drawing that was aesthetically intricate and seemed to be created by long, laborious and tedious hours, but took a faction of the time to generate and also defied a factory-made appearance.” During the process of developing each drawing, a piece of canvas was dry brushed with powdered charcoal and then thrashed on the support making a unique mark. The values and form on these drawings is controlled through the shape, amount of medium, and weight that is applied with each drawing stroke on the support. “The process is at once delicate and violent. Much like our own existence, each drawing is explicitly unique and carries specific characteristics from all the others. Viewed as a group, the unifying denominator is this uniqueness whose accidental nature is put into question as the “accident” is repeated time and time again. - Jesus De La Rosa http://www.jesusdelarosadrawings.blogspot.com/ http://jesusdelarosa.net/home.html La Galería de Arte en Rusteberg , UTB Presenta “Dibujos Sistemáticos” por Jesús de la Rosa La recepción de apertura será la noche del martes 21 de febrero, de 6:30 a 8:30 p.m. La permanencia de la exhibición terminara el 23 de marzo de 2012. La galería se encuentra en el campus de la Universidad de Texas en Brownsville, en la calle Gorgas, frente al anfiteatro en honor de Marion Hedrick Smith. Durante la apertura, Jesús de la Rosa, explicara el proceso del como realizar estos dibujos sistemáticos. Invitara a la audiencia a participar y contribuir en la instalación usando el mismo proceso. Es así como la exhibición de un solo artista se convierte en la exhibición de la comunidad, una pieza colaborativa.

Joe's Indipendent Video Projects

Title: Untitled
Actor/ Producer - Joe Trevino
Filmed: Summer 2011
Camera - HTC Evo
Edited  by Joe Trevino
Email:  akumumpet@yahoo.com


Video blurb, considered an unfinished work, inspired by a movie idea of a wonder drug that allows you to experience the after life.  Joe puts together a short video shot in less than two weeks, using song ( The Funeral by Band of Horses) as the catalyst for the video. "Some of the biggest problems I encountered simply finding camera angles that worked, so that it captures the subject and the surroundings". Shot in black in white, to show the mundane, banal lifestyle of the character, Joe takes you to the somber world of a man that is unhappy with life.  
 Joe continues to work on similar,  abstract , real time expressive video journals .

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THE SOUTH TEXAS WOMAN ARTISTS - CHOCOLAT ART

THE SOUTH TEXAS WOMEN ARTISTS

NOEL PALMENEZ - JANUARY 24, 2012

For Immediate Release

The Gallery in the Rusteberg Building at UTB

Proudly Presents

“Machistas y Vanidad”

a show by Noel Palmenez

Opening reception night will be January 24, from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M. where light refreshments will be served.  Palmenez’s show will run from Tuesday January 24 to Friday February 17, 2012. The Gallery is located in the Rusteberg Building right in front of the Marion Hedrick Smith Memorial amphitheater on Gorgas Drive.

Machistas y Vanidad

 This exhibit is a culmination of the exterior, how we wish to perceive ourselves and what we desire.  The beetles and insects help to connect the people who wear them with groundedness.  Beetles move with their bellies always close to the earth, and so their wisdom is sacred and deep.  We as people at times forget that we too are from the earth and rarely think of how are actions effects others and the world we live in.         

Being a teacher my concern with machismo especially within Latino culture is how it begins to influence our young boys with ideas of what it means to be a real man.  It’s macho.  It’s the masculine identity of many latino men, that are left behind holding on to old traditions and beliefs.  The Machistas greatest weakness is the belief that they know it all, and the fear to ask a question or admit that they are wrong, while never showing any emotions but a facade of strength and toughness.  It is pride that keeps many men from living a more fulfilled life, and the fear of change.  What is left is an ego driven young man that is more than willing to take what he wants because there is no alternative while ruining the lives that surround them.  The best thing of being machista is the pride and duty to ones family, however making it feel like a prison to some that would like to further their education and seek another life outside of their circles.          

As to how vanidad or vanity is included within my work, it is seen through ornamentation and external beauty of women.  Even though vanity is considered a negative because of the emphasis on external appearances, I see it as their right of freedom.  The world of art is coming together on a level that has never been seen before and women are using it to display their identity, and fearlessness.  The time honored roles between men and women are starting to change; men are gradually releasing the reigns of authority and letting women be a larger part of what happens within the workings of the world.  A new voice is a good change, for it is not tied down by tradition, and a women’s voice is genuine and very real.

Noel Palmenez

The Gallery at the Rusteberg Building

Samantha Isabel Garcia, gallery director.

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Brownsville, Texas 78520

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